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Thursday 23rd November 1775




For the London Evening Post.
To the Independent Freeholders of the
County of GLOUCESTER.

Gentlemen,
IF you will give yourselves the trouble to think but for a moment, you cannot hesitate on which of the present candidates you choice ought in prudence to descend. On one side an independent gentleman, well known, and greatly respected for his good character (which gives him the support of that large body of the gentry, which is independent also) makes you an offer of his services. On the other, steps forward a stripling, whose best recommendation is his insignificance, has given no offence, being better known in his family's narrow circle (and the Court) then in the extensive county of Gloucester, and he makes a tender of his puny services, and it will appear he had not even these at his own command to bestow.
As a freeholder (who meant to give his vote conscientiously) I would address him thus :"Sir, the Court Calendar informs me, you are a Lieutenant in the Navy; your services are already engaged in behalf of your country; Heaven grant Britain may reap the benefit of them in the line military which you have embraced. Do you not know at whose beck you, and every officer is, when at home, and attending you duty in Parliament ? Do you not know the Minister can send you to either Indies, when he wants to annihilate your vote, and make a nullity of representation (a cypher indeed in a nullity) what then is to become of us, whom you have promised to defend in Parliament ? Of suppose the Minister took a liking to you, and had a mind to advance you in the navy (remember it is a great temptation to be an Admiral) would you, could you refuse it ? I see you pause, and honour you for thinking before you give an answer. Had you said yes, those who don't know mankind, might have believed you; I cannot, when I take a view of the votes of the military in every Parliament, and see and lament with what ease they prostitute private conscience, and the public good, to sordid views of self-interest and advancement.
It is for these weighty reasons I reject the servant of the Crown in favour of an independent country gentleman, and invite my brethren to do the same, for the prosperity of this opulent and respectable county.- The following quotation may possibly strengthen the above.

An ille vobis Liber videtur cui Regis Minister imperat ? Cui leges imponit, proscribis, jubet, vetat quod videtur ? Poscit, dundum vocat ? Veniendum, ejicit ? Abeundum, Minitatur ? Extimiscenaum.
A Brother Freeholder, unbiased by Party.




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In a considerable number of our last Paper (by an alteration after was at press) a transposition of a few lines was made in the BERKSHIRE PETITION. To rectify this inadvertency, the Printer has judged necessary to reprint it.

The Moderation, the good Sense, the Decency and Elegance of this Piece, afford a most striking and most pleasing Contrast to the indecent and illiberal Aspersions of the BLOODY Addresses, whose Aim is to precipitate their Country into all the Horrors of a ruinous Civil War. It does equal Honor to the noble Lords who promoted it, and to the Cause they espouse. It was present on the same Day with the Address, by the Members of the County.

An authentic Copy of the ADDRESS and PETITION to his MAJESTY, moved for by the EARL of ABINGDON, seconded by LORD CRAVEN, and signed by a very great majority of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of BERKS, at the Meeting held in the Town Hall at ABINGDON, pursuant to an advertisement from the HIGH SHERIFF, "for taking the general sense of the County on the present unhappy differences between GREAT BRITAIN and her COLONIES," one Tuesday the 7th of November, 1775.

To the KING's Most Excellent MAJESTY.
The Humble ADDRESS and PETITION of the FREEHOLDERS of the County of BERKS.
May it please you Majesty !

YOUR Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects, Freeholders of the County of BERKS, though deeply affected with the melancholy civil dissentions which prevail in your empire, have acquiesced, with boundless confidence, in your Majesty's goodness, and in the wisdom of your Parliament, for the restoration of internal tranquilly to your dominions, and satisfaction and repose to the minds of your subjects.
We conceived that the interference of your Majesty's people, in the affairs of your government, otherwise that by their representatives in Parliament, (although it be their undoubted right) ought to be extremely rare, and reserved for occasions of the greatest necessity. We have therefore beheld with astonishment, persons who profess uncommon zeal for your Majesty's government, discovering a manifest distrust in its discretion; urging your Ministers to a continuance of the violent measures which hitherto have produced none but calamitous effects; and to which the Ministers have shewn, and still do shew a disposition which it does not seen at all necessary to stimulate.
These inflammatory addresses, we humbly apprehend, have a tendency to distress your Majesty's paternal feelings, and by urging coercive measures as alone effectual and proper in the present disorders, to render such concessions as your Majesty's and the public wisdom may think necessary to make, dishonourable and unsafe to your Majesty, and this nation.
Finding the dangerous and seditious attempts to embarrass your Majesty's councils, and prevent the restoration of tranquillity, pursued with an earnestness which fills the minds of your Majesty's peaceable subjects with horror, we are constrained, very reluctantly, and with all possible humility and deference, to lay before your Majesty our faithful sentiments on the origins of the present troubles; on the measures which have been, and still are pursued, in consequence of those troubles; and on the dismal effects which we conceive must result from them.
As inhabitants of that part of your dominions, which is the seat of the imperial legislature, we have a due sense of the necessity of preserving the supreme authority of Parliament over all the British empire : But as English Freeholders, who value ourselves on our inestimable right of granting our own property, either by ourselves, or Representatives of our own choosing only, we cannot, without divesting ourselves of every principle of equity, justice, and even of common decency, consider the complaints of millions of our fellow-subjects, separated from us by an immense ocean, on being taxed without any voice, directly or indirectly in the grant, to be entirely groundless, and the result of nothing but a factious spirit, aiming at the dismemberment of the empire.- The substantial and not nominal assent of the subject in the grant of their own money, we can never hold to be a frivolous concern to English Freeholders; - It can never be exterminated in one part of the empire, without being endangered in all; - And we look with just indignation at the servile and unmanly spirit, in which the very principle of that sacred right is treated with scorn and ridicule, by several publications industriously circulated; and which, we trust, receive no countenance from your Majesty's Ministers; because, if so countenanced, they can have no other effect, than to raise a suspicion, that the government of this country is sliding from its only firm, natural, and constitutional foundations.
We have seen with much concern, the disorders which have arisen in America on this serious ground. We lament; we blame them; but we cannot think them unnatural, in those in whom the love of freedom is united with the ordinary weakness and imperfection of human nature.

It is for that principle joined with that infirmity, that we presume to supplicate your Majesty's clemency.

The disorders have arisen from a complaint, plausible at least, of one right violated; and we can never be brought to imagine, that the true remedy for such disorders consists in an attack on all other rights, and an attempt to drive the people either to unconditional submission or absolute despair.

Sire, the affairs of your empire are distracted, because they are misconducted. The consequences of the measures pursued are as evident as they are deplorable.

Your Majesty's Ministers, finding the forces of your natural born subjects not sufficiently powerful for, or not sufficiently disposed to, the present coercive service, have listened to the offers of foreign nations, who have thought fit, it seems, voluntarily, and therefore in a manner the more alarming to all true Englishmen, to interfere in our domestic differences.
Prostrated before your throne, with faces suffused with shame, for this apparent nakedness of our country, and with hearts oppressed with anxiety for its future destiny, we deprecate, whilst yet it is in suspense, this most perilous and desperate proceeding - English dignity and English government whilst resting on their true bottom, can never stand in need of Russian assistance of their preservation - They who are necessary to the support of government, are the government; - and if we cannot preserve America without foreign aid, America belongs to foreigners and not to England.
It has been the usual course of a rebellious people to call in the arms of strangers to distract their country. This worst part of the rebellion has not yet appeared in America. Let this one thing right in their conduct, atone for many wrong ones; and let your Majesty's clemency permit itself to operate in favour of a people, whose petitions have not yet appeared before any throne but yours.- Let not England set an example which is but too easily copied, by drawing into a free country, the insidious and mercenary aid of foreign forces trained to the support of a barbarous despotism - The moment that a great army of such, or of any foreigners, shall enter your territories, the liberties of your people are at an end; and your Majesty's authority will be more endangered by their assistance, than it can be by any rebellion which can arise among your own subjects.

When we have such terrible objects in prospect, we forget the millions we are spending, and the millions more we are like to spend, in this unhappy and unfruitful contest.

Deign, therefore, most gracious Sovereign, to ��. delivered by the affectionate voice of duty and fidelity; strenuous as we are for the honour of our country, we cannot be forgetful of the peace and concord. It is therefore we abhor the idea of encouraging foreigners to make a prey of this nation, and its dependencies, under the miserable and uncovered pretext of discountenancing faction and sedition among ourselves.

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Robert BarkerBenj. HarrisRobert Salt
John FelthamJ. GriffithHenry Smith
John BeaverR. LewingtonJohn Streat
Wm. Watts [?]Wm. LewingtonDaniel Woodham
Thomas ExallS. HammondJohn Finch
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Thomas PhillipsJohn MaulE. Hawksworth
John HarrisonJoseph HarperJames Chunn
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Robert GarrardJohn WellsJ. Mulcock
Benj. GrayJohn CrippsE. Towsey
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John CollinsWm. GodfreyC. Sampson
Josiah Lowsley [?}John AnnsJohn Kirby
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Wm. KentJohn FisherWm. Elderfield
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